Holder for fly-paper.



PATENTED NOV. 6, 1906.

A. EPPLE. HOLDER FOR FLY PAPER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.31,1906.

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HOLDER FOR FLY-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed August 31, 1906. Serial No. 332.820.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoIs EPPLE, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of Rochester,in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Holders for Fly-Paper, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sticky fly paper packages of that class designed to be suspended and as the paper ex osed has caught enough flies it is torn off and another portion brought into position for use.

The present invention has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple and inexpensive package of this nature in the form of a complete package comprising an inclosing casing within which is a light cheap-frame held in position therein frictionally and carrying the sticky paper or 'tape. The arrangement of the paper-carrying frame is such that in unwinding the tape the pull is at an angle to the roll, so that it is not a sliding or a slipping pull, and hence the part moving away from the roll will readily break away from the roll and the paper will not stick, and even should it primarily stick it will readily pull away by a slight pull upon the exposed end.

Other ob'ects and advantages of the invention w l hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in th accompanying drawings, which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the package hung up ready for use. Fig. 2 is a substantially central section through the package. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the case with the frame and roll removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the frame and its roll removed from the casing. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the frame.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, 1 designates a light, preferably sheetmetal, frame, as of tin, having the cross ortion 2 and the parallel le portions 3. T ese leg portions are provide with openings 4 to receive the rod or wire 5, the ends of which are bent at an angle, as seen at 6, after having been passed through the said holes, so as to prevent accidental removal of the rod. On this rod is mounted a roll 7 of fly-paper of the variety that is made sticky and requiring no semili uid or adhesive substance to be applied t ereto as it is brought into position for use. The roll may contain any desired number of yards and the paper be of any required Width. It is by preference wound upon a light hollow, tube or core 8, as seen in Fig. 2, through which the rod 5 passes.

9 is the casing. It is preferably formed of cardboard or similar cheap material and is substantially square in its outline. It is provided at one corner with suitable means, as a tape or ribbon 10, by which it may be suspended in any desired position, as upon a ook 11, as seen in Fig. 1. This box or case ing has the corner opposite the ribbon 10 open, as seen at 12, and through this slit or opening the fly-paper is designed to be drawn.

The paper is preferabl coated upon both sides, it being understoo that this coating is applied before the roll is placed in the casing, and it is of such a nature that the strip will not stick where contacting so it cannot be unwound by a pull upon the strip.

In practice the frame supplied with its roll of fly-paper is placed in the casing or box and the lattersuspended b its ribbon so as to depend diagonally, an in this position the frame occupies a horizontal position, resting at its ends against the two lower inclined sides of the box or casing, where it cannot be displaced by a pull upon the fiy-paper strip. The device complete is put up ready for use and placed on the market to be sold as an article of commerce.

In use the end of the strip of fly-paper,

which is preferably provided with a stiff paper end, as seen at 13, to serve as a handpull and also to prevent the end from being rolled within the casing, is pulled out for, say, a few feet and there allowed to hang till it has caught all the fiies it will hold, when the projectin portion may be torn pr cut off and another ength pulled out, and this continued till all the paper has been used up. It is to be understood that the box or casing is provided with a cover, as at 14, having a slit 15 coincident with the slit or opening in the corner of the box and through which the projecting end of the fly-paper protrudes.

The simplicity andcheapness of the article places it within the means of all, and the advantages thereof will be apparent to all having occasion to use this character of flycatching material.

What is claimed as new isp 1. A rectan ular casing with means for suspending it rom one corner, the opposite corner having a slit for the passage of the tape, a frame held horizontally within the casing with ends resting against the opposite inclined sides of opposite corners of the casing, and a roll of sticky fly-paper wound and sup orted within the frame with its end extended through said slit.

2. A rectangular casing, means for suspending the same from one corner with its sides inclined from a perpendicular, a frame Within the casing andheld horizontally with its ends against the lower inclined sides of the casing, and a roll of sticky fly-paper carried by said frame with its end at an angle casing against the inclined sides of opposite horizontally-disposed corners,- a rod held in the side bars of said frame, and a'roll of 35 sticky fiy-paper wound upon said rod and having one end depending through said slits.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 29th day of August, 1906, in'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ALOIS EPPLE. Witnesses: I p

ENos B. WmTMoRE, A. M. WHITMORE. 

